I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect.
Technical Product Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Sep 13, 2018
It has so many features. First of all, it has a full proxy architecture, it has multiple modules. The best feature is the WAF, the web application firewall module. It also has cashing type capabilities. It has all kinds of load-balancing algorithms based on your IT requirements.
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Network Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 13, 2016
The F5 GTM/BIGIP DNS (Global Traffic Manager) is a valuable feature. This feature allows for DNS load balancing, which means that high availability and load sharing can be done across services locally, as well as across datacenters with advanced capabilities.
I used GitHub for autoscaling CloudFormation, and I found two bugs and I submitted them. Their implementation in GitHub could be cleaner and allow for a bit more customization.
Technical Product Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Sep 13, 2018
The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment.
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Network Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 13, 2016
I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role.
Senior ICT Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 9, 2022
Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it.
Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement.
Senior Network Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
May 22, 2022
Its GUI could be a bit better. Other than that, it's already pretty good. We don't use it in a high-performance environment. So, we don't really care so much about too many features.
